Practices

Industries

Education and Clerkships

J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 1974, with honors

B.A., Principia College, 1971, highest honors

Admissions

Texas

Profile

Bill Hays is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Section and has more than 38 years of experience in corporate securities law. His practice focuses on representing and advising both public and private companies in acquisitions, public offerings and private financings.

Among other work in his practice, Bill has:

Represented clients in raising public and private financing.

Counseled publicly held and private businesses in connection with acquisitions and divestitures.

Advised boards of directors and board committees on their duties and on internal and SEC investigations.

Represented public companies in restructurings, including bankruptcy reorganizations.

Selected Client Representations

The sellers in the sale ownership in Curves International, Inc. and Curves for Women II, L.C. to Curves International Holdings, Inc. and NCP-CW Corp., respectively. Curves is the largest fitness club franchise in the world.

EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. in a going-private sale of the company to private equity firm Francisco Partners II, L.P.

Commercial Metals Company in the sale of $400 million principal amount of Senior Unsecured Notes due 2017.

Commercial Metals Company in its purchase of assets from multiple companies including Banner Rebar Inc., Toltec Steel Services, Inc. and Bouras Industries et. al., among others.

CLST Holdings, Inc. in the sale of assets to Brightpoint Corporation.

SpectraVision in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy conducting a controlled blind auction resulting in a merger with its largest competitor.

A holding company for various entities that owned and operated hotel, casino, and management companies in the gaming industry in its Chapter 11 case in Delaware involving substantial asset sales and contentious litigation.

Publicly-traded metals recycling and steel company and its subsidiaries in documenting and consummating a $200 million account receivables securitization financing.

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